From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:10:41 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert diffstat back to English Message-ID: <7v627h7hny.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20120913210111.GA16956@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > I suspect we will end up with people not setting i18n.projectlang, and > getting Klingon diffstats on the list. Yes, but when our starting point is that the diffstat summary is not meant for machine consumption, which I tend to agree, that is a logical consequence no matter how you cut it, no? After all, they want to be careless when running format-patch meant for _this_ project whose project language is C locale, but still want to be able to see output that is not meant for machine consumption in their native language, and these are incompatible goals. Giving them a mechanism so that they do not have to remember setting LANG/LC_ALL every time they context switch into this project would be the best we can do, I am afraid. Unless somebody has a better design that does not involve three languages (always C, project language and Klingon), that is.